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SUMMARY:Italians in/and the Maghreb: Between Integration and Isolation
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The University Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy \nItalians in/and the Maghreb will expand discussions of colonialism\, migration\, race\, decolonial movements\, and postcolonial issues in Italian and Italian diaspora studies. While the study of Italian colonialism has blossomed in recent years with the country’s official colonies in Eritrea\, Somalia\, Libya\, Ethiopia\, and the Dodecanese Islands now the topic of many scholarly studies\, the history of Italians in Algeria\, Morocco\, and Tunisia has tended to remain marginal\, and mostly examined as an example of Italy’s aggressive emigration policies and attempts to pursue informal colonies. This seminar explores the exchanges between Italy and French North Africa\, focusing on imperial ambitions\, migration\, and the wide-ranging intellectual dialogues between the two regions. Papers span in focus and time frame—from the period of peak diaspora in the late nineteenth century to “repatriations” during long decolonization (Ballinger 2020)—and converse with recent studies such as L’Italia e Africa: Strategie e visioni dell’età postcoloniale\, 1945–1989 (Borruso 2024)\, Migration at the End of Empire. Time and the Politics of Departure between Italy and Egypt (Viscomi 2024); Storia del colonialismo italiano (Deplano and Pes 2024)\, and Italiani d’Africa. Racconti del Ritorno (Vigo 2025). \nPresenters: Sarah DeMott\, Valerie McGuire\, Erica Moretti\, Gabriele Montalbano\, Luca Peretti \nRespondents: Naor Ben-Yehoyada\, Columbia University; Youssef Ben Ismail\, Amherst College; Claudio Fogu\, University of California Santa Barbara; Mia Fuller\, Gladyce Arata Terrill\, University of California\, Berkeley \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/italians-in-and-the-mahgreb/
LOCATION:Italian Academy for Advanced Studies\, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:SOF@50: Humanities in the World
DESCRIPTION:Co-Sponsored by The University Seminars on Cultural Memory and Public Humanities: Expanding Scholarship and Pedagogy \n(Faculty House and Heyman Center for The Humanities) \nFor the past 50 years\, the Columbia Society of Fellows has welcomed early-career researchers into a community of scholars whose research projects and teaching open new avenues of inquiry both within and across disciplines.  From its earliest years when it gathered in Faculty House\, the Society of Fellows has enjoyed a longstanding partnership with University Seminars in bringing together researchers to think together.  In celebration of this partnership and of the milestone anniversaries of both the Society of Fellows and The University Seminars\, the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities and The University Seminars on Cultural Memory (#717) and Public Humanities (#805) are hosting a three-day conference\, Humanities in the World\, to welcome scholars from across the generations to discuss topics and questions that are of particular urgency for scholar-citizens at the present time—and to celebrate what we have accomplished together.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/sof50-humanities-in-the-world/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:Environmental and Racial Justice in Shakespeare Studies
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The University Seminar on Shakespeare \nThis symposium brings together scholars and artists to consider the intersections of racial\, social\, and environmental justice in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The interlinked racial and environmental crises of our time seem to compound faster than mitigating efforts\, let alone the human imagination\, can keep up. But the reparative work they demand requires a deep investigation of the early modern past. As the imaginative literature from this period demonstrates\, premodern ideas of racial difference were inseparable from questions of geographical distance\, understandings about “nature\,” and the complexity of the more-than-human world more broadly. By bringing together scholars and artists who have been considering questions of racialization and environmental issues in early modernity\, this symposium will help us envision new methods and practices that enable us to engage ethically with the complex entanglements of racial and environmental injustice in Shakespeare’s world and in ours. \nSCHEDULE \n8:30 AM\nRegistration and Welcome  \n9:00 AM – 10:00 AM\nPANEL I:  Echoes of Early Modernity\nRuben Espinosa\, Arizona State University\nLowell Duckert\, University of Delaware \n10:15 AM – 11:15 AM\nPANEL II: The More-than-Human World\nPatricia Cahill\, Emory University\nDennis Britton\, University of British Columbia (Canada) \n11:30 AM – 1:00 PM\nLunch \n1:15 PM – 2:15 PM\nPANEL III: Race and Place\nVin Nardizzi\, University of British Columbia (Canada)\nEli Cumings\, Columbia University \n2:30 PM – 4:00 PM\nKEYNOTE CONVERSATION: Environmental Racism and Narratives of Settlement\nMadeline Sayet\, Arizona State University\nScott Manning Stevens\, Syracuse University \n  \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/environmental-and-racial-justice-in-shakespeare-studies/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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SUMMARY:Annual Dinner and Tannenbaum Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This event is open to members of The University Seminars community only. Registration is required. \nTANNENBAUM LECTURE\n“Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary”\nLynn Garafola\nProfessor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College \nBorn in 1934 to parents who came to Harlem during the Great Migration\, Arthur Mitchell fell in love with ballet as a teenager and against all odds became New York City Ballet’s first African American star. Like Jackie Robinson and other civil rights heroes\, Mitchell stood on the front line of integration\, even as he left a lasting mark on ballets such as Agon and A Midsummer Night’s Dream by George Balanchine that defined a new era in American dance. Outraged by the assassination of Martin Luther King at the height of the Black Arts Movement\, in 1969 Mitchell founded Dance Theatre of Harlem\, the first enduring majority-Black company. Under Mitchell’s inspired direction\, DTH quickly became a racial and artistic change-maker\, enabling large numbers of Black dancers to pursue a professional career in ballet for the first time\, even as the company became the incubator of ballets that spoke directly to the Black experience. Mitchell seldom spoke of the racism he had encountered\, his closeted life as a gay man\, or the toll that DTH took on his private and professional life. Heroic\, mercurial\, and complex\, he was a larger-than-life figure\, blessed by higher powers to remake his chosen art. \nLynn Garafola is Professor Emerita of Dance at Barnard College\, Columbia University.  A historian and critic\, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes\, Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance\, and La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern; editor of José Limón: An Unfinished Memoir\, The Diaries of Marius Petipa\, and other books\, and curator of several exhibitions\, including Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet\, New York Story: Jerome Robbins and His World\, and Arthur Mitchell: Harlem’s Ballet Trailblazer. A former Getty Scholar and recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers\, she has just completed her second biography\, Arthur Mitchell: The Extraordinary Life of Harlem’s Ballet Visionary\, scheduled for publication by Yale University Press in September 2026. \nTANNENBAUM-WARNER AWARD\nFor distinguished scholarship and exceptional service to The University Seminars\nDavid Johnston\nProfessor of Political Philosophy at Columbia University \nDavid Johnston has taught at Columbia since 1986\, specializing in political philosophy and the history of moral and political ideas. He has served as President of the New York State Political Science Association and as Chair of the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought as well as several leadership roles within Columbia. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and The Politics of Cultural Transformation; The Idea of a Liberal Theory; and A Brief History of Justice. He is editor of a selection of readings on Equality; co-editor\, with Nadia Urbinati and Camila Vergara\, of Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict; editor and translator of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Critical Edition\, 2nd ed. and (most recently) of Hobbes’s Leviathan: A Norton Library Edition. His current research focuses on the role of the idea of individual autonomy in modern political/economic/social imaginaries. \nThis event is open to seminar chairs\, members\, rapporteurs & friends of The University Seminars.
URL:https://universityseminars.columbia.edu/event/annual-dinner-and-tannenbaum-lecture/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York
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